9.02mi, 84:11, 11 MAY 12, Springfield, Virginia

iThink:
The Psychedelic Furs, "Love My Way"
MaX, "Aim"
M83, "Midnight City"

WX at 11:58 S 3 10.00 Mostly Cloudy FEW080 BKN110 71 66 83% NA NA 29.80 1009.4

Odometer 12C: 274.3mi

Z4. Average/max heart rate = 160/176

First day of the real retraining season. Not hot, but humid, and the usual effects of it sucking energy away from me became apparent plenty quick enough. I was determined to get in a 9-miler, at least, although I didn't think I was going to have time for the usual weekend 11.5. My legs were also too beat to really do a long run like 11.5, I think.

I should be really concerned about Mother's Day weekend, but right now, I really have to admit I kind of don't really care right now.  Any more than I care about any of the other artificial "holidays" that are generated to keep greeting card companies in business. In general, I don't want to observe any of it anymore because it's bullshit.  There are lots of things I think about as I'm on the run, but there are some topics that are recurrent.

There is more scenery on Sundays. That is all.

Splits

SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:44 08:44 08:44 08:44 1.00
1.00 17:52 09:08 09:08 08:56 2.00
1.00 26:35 08:43 08:43 08:52 3.00
1.00 35:57 09:22 09:22 08:59 4.00
1.00 44:55 08:58 08:58 08:59 5.00
1.00 54:04 09:09 09:09 09:01 6.00
1.00 64:02 09:58 09:58 09:09 7.00
1.00 74:07 10:05 10:05 09:16 8.00
1.02 84:11 10:04 09:52 09:20 9.02